Pocket Planet
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Ambient Electronic / House /
Experimental
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2023
Composition/Writing, Production, and Mixing
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Description
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Music release
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Performing, writing, arranging, producing, mixing the music.
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Live instruments, sample searching, synthesizer construction, layering, live recording of featured artist, production on all that can be heard, and additional mixing.
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Exercised available creativity while I was focusing on developing my game production skills.
Goal
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Create a complete work to my vision, with honesty to instincts.
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Create something that follows an emotional cadence (individual songs and as a whole).
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Immersive levels of complexity.
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See what would happen if I stayed honnest to the creative soul of a product.
Major Challenges:
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Learning of processes in different production stages, especially mixing, mastering, and release.
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Balancing work, production of music, and life.
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Managing burnout during mixing/mastering
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Letting go when the product had reached ~96% satisfaction to vision
Major Success:
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Stayed true to creative instincts and vision across production.
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The finished product is extremely close to the vision (~96% is a massive achievement)!
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All aspects of musical knowledge and technical skills grew.
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Refined my creative process generally (and this includes games)
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Made work that stands with my best achievements.